Index. 



Ado 



Newman, Mr. improved gazometer, 6. 

 Nice, on the country round, 397. 

 Nickel, method of detecting, 466. 

 Nomenclature, chemical, queries re- 

 specting, 329. 



Ocean, intertropical, temperature and 



specific gravity of, 469. 

 Odier, Dr. death of, 484. 

 Olefiaot gas, union with chlorine, 26. 

 Oopas tree of Java, account of, 202. 

 Optics, improvements in, during 1816,3. 

 Omithorinchus paradoxus, peculiarity 



in, 325. 

 Orthite, 160. , 



Oryctognosy, improvements in 1816, 59. 

 Ovum, passage of, into the uterus, 468. 

 Oxalates, 34. 

 Oxalic acid, composition of, 33. 



Paeonia, on the genus, 231. 



Parallax of the fixed stars, on, 231 , 324. 



Patents, list of, 334, 413. 



Pearl spar, 80. 



Pearson, Mr. on the mercurial prepa- 

 rations used by the Chinese, 344. 



Pendulum, on the experiments to deter- 

 mine the length of, 488. 



Pensey, Mr. on an Aurora Borealis 

 seen at Sunderland, 250. 



Perthshire, on a mineralogical descrip- 

 tion of, 219. 



Peschier, M. on benzoic acid as a re- 

 agent for iron, 162. 



Petit, M. on the dispersive powers of 

 certain bodies, 3 — on the disperaive 

 and refractive powers of liquids, 155. 



Pettigrew, Dr. on the introduction of 

 vaccine matter into America, 404. 



Philips, Mr. Richard, on an anomaly in 

 affinity, 11. 



Philips, Mr. W. on measurements by 

 the reflective goniometer, 471. 



Philosophical Transactions for 1816, 

 analysis of, 462. 



Phosphorescence of fluor spar, 17. 



Phosphatic acid, 35. 



Phosphites, 47. 



Phosphoric acid, 36 — action of, on in- 

 digo, 40. 



Phosphorous acid, 35. 



Phosphorus, on the acids of, 34. 



Phosphureted hydrogen gas, 26. 



Phthore, 8. 



Physiology, 87. 



Platioa, purification of, 29. 



Platinum, fulminating, account of, 229. 



Pole, (forth, queries respecting the 

 probability of reaching, 381. 



Pond, Mr. on the parallax of the fixed 

 liars, 831, 884, 



Porret, Mr. on the flame of a candle, 

 3(7. 



Pn uie, influence of, on electricity. 

 554. 



Prony, M. lectures by, on analytical 



mechanic*, 299, 



Purpurissum, 134— substitute for, 134. 

 Pyrodmalite, analysis cf, 78. 

 Pyrophorus of Hotnberg, on, 18. 

 Pyrorthite, 160. 



Quantity, influence of, on chemical 

 action, 352. 



Racket, Mr. on a serpent foand in Dor- 

 setshire, 394. 



Rain of red dust, 84. 



Rat d'eau, on, 398. 



Raumer, new arrangement of rocks, 82. 



Rhinoceros, bones of, found at Ply- 

 mouth, 323. 



Rhubarb, acids in, 103. 



Ridolfi, Marquis, on the purification of 

 platina, 29. 



Risso, M. on the crustaceous animals 

 round Nice, 227. 



Robiquet, M. on the combination of 

 olefiant gas and chlorine, 26. 



Rosacic acid, 40. 



Royal Society, meetings of, 148, 229, 

 394, 468. 



Ruhland, M. on metallic hydrurets, 5. 



Salt, new mineral, 483. 



Sapphyr d'eau, analysis of, 69. 



Savigny, M. on animals without ver- 

 tebrae, 220. 



Saussure, M. Theodore de, on the car- 

 bonic acid in the atmosphere, 41. 



Sciences, physical, improvements in, 

 during 1816, 1. 



Scudamore, Dr. analysis of Tunbridge 

 Wells' water, 49. 



Sea water, analysis of, 50. 



Sea, temperature of, 247. 



Serpentine, analysis of, 79. 



Serpent, uncommon, found in Dorset- 

 shire, 394. 



Ship-building, improvements in, on, 150. 



Silica, how separated from tantalum, 

 105. 



Silk-worms, excrements of, 57. 



Silver, chlorate of, 43 — cupellationof, 

 29 —phosphates of, 45. 



Silver kupperglanz, analysis of, 245. 



Sky, mineralogy of, 472, 474. 



Smith, Sir James E. on tordilium, 325. 



Soda, phosphate of, 45. 



Soda lake in South America, S3. 



Solids, structure of, II. 



Sowerby, Mr. chemical classification of 

 minerals by, 124 — on fossil remains 

 from the TagUS, 470. 



Spiders, on their power of conveying 

 their threads from one point to an- 

 other, 306. 



Stadion, Frederick Count of, on per- 

 chloric acid, 22. 



Mali, s, improvements in, during I Mt>, i. 



Steel, 81. 



Stilbite, analj ill of, B0. 



Stockton, Mi . on leorolo lii-.. 



Btone found In a bed of coal, !<>'>. 



Strawberry, ipeciesof, on, 460, 



